The building is in the urban nucleus, on the
Ronda dels Esports. It stands at the meeting point between two scales, the
more domestic one of single-family housing in streets that are no more than
8 m wide on its north and south sides and the larger scale and section of
the community services buildings on the Ronda, on its west-facing side. The
health centre shares a street block with a former school, which shows its
public nature by being the only free-standing building in this part of the
urban area. The rest are terraced houses.

The need to protect the interior spaces from
the eyes of the neighbouring buildings and give the building the necessary
scale led to the choice of a simple volume pierced by voids to obtain the
necessary light, with a priority objective in its composition being to
“see light enter”.

The entrance is placed in a covered space
that is easily identifiable from both the Ronda and Calle Sant Francesc, the
longer of the streets leading towards the town centre. The ground floor has
the reception area, supervision and filing, emergencies and sample
extraction areas, pediatrics, a store room and general services. Particular
care was taken to make it possible to keep the emergencies area in service,
linked to the extractions and medical records supervision and filing areas,
while the rest of the health centre is closed. The first floor holds the
General Practice and Maternity areas, as well as the administration area,
with the privacy it requires.

The building is laid out on two floors,
creating entrances for the light in a way that safeguards both the privacy
of each space and an appropriate relationship between the areas.

The materials help to identify the
composition. The grey concrete walls close the spaces and courtyards on the
ground floor, outside the shape imposed on the volume of the first floor,
which has a Portuguese moka stone facing in ‘Roman style’ formats with
the joints emphasised only at the corner over the main entrance.

In the interior, the metal structure passes
unnoticed among the plasterboard partitions clad to door height in
wood-finish panels in the shared areas. The courtyard is walled with glass
and the joinery partitions are designed to minimise the presence of the
aluminium, leaving the glazing as the true interior/exterior
closing/connecting element.

Centred in the plot as a whole, set apart from
the views from the street, a room has been placed on the ground floor and a
space on the roof for the machinery associated with the installations, with
the possibility of direct access from there to the two main parts of the
building: the north wing, with emergencies, sample extraction,
administration and maternity, and the south wing, with pediatrics and
general practice.